For those of you who are visiting this website for the first time, www.afriprov.org is your window into African Oral Literature and African culture in general from a Christian perspective. In 1998 through the help of the Urban Ministries Serving God (UMSG) Office based in Nairobi, Kenya, we started our Internet Website, then later our Facebook Page and now other social media such as WhatsApp (including “African Proverbs” and “African Proverbs Research”). Over the last 20 years we have continued to develop our database including our collection of proverbs from 48 different African nations. 143 African Languages are represented in the 238 "African Proverbs of the Month".

The
Sukuma Legacy Project promotes the history, culture, Oral Literature —
Stories, Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles and Songs — and visual
representations of the Sukuma People in Tanzania in East Africa. There are
various examples of SCCs and community values.

This updated, revised, version of our website uses an open source (free) CMS (Content Management System) software program Joomla and we are migrating to an advanced version of WordPress. We continue to upgrade the website to ensure a high level of security.

What is unique is that the origin and starting point is Africa itself. With the renewed interest in African Oral Literature and African culture in general, we try to provide a forum for people like you to share your interest and experiences in researching, collecting, writing about and using "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories." A key part are our regular meetings of the African Proverbs Working Group in Nairobi, Kenya. Members outside Nairobi can connect through email, Skype and Facebook.

With the marvels of the new information technology we can use this Internet Website to:

Share our own work (collections, research, writings, applications experiences) and enthusiasm for "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories" with other people with similar interests. Two main focuses are Endangered African Proverbs Collections and African Proverbs and Stories Legacy Projects.

Ask questions of, and obtain materials from, other people with similar interests.

Compile an ongoing collection of a wide variety of resources (in the form of an Annotated Bibliography, Book Reviews, and News Archives) related to "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories".

Support and encourage different people involved in this wonderful world of "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories".

Develop and expand a worldwide network of people interested in "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories".

Publish articles and books on
African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories.

Use African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories as the
source of writing articles and books on African Narrative Theology.

Our African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website Team is international, ecumenical, multi-ethnic and composed of men and women. We have a Christian focus with emphasis on the Biblical Parallels and the religious application of the proverbs and stories.

I am the Moderator based in Nairobi, Kenya at
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. The Assistant Moderator is Cephas Agbemenu based in Nairobi, Kenya at
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The host of our website is CNETGlobal International that has a registered Internet Domain at www.cngs.com. The Website Host isSam Wanyoike based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada at
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. The Administrator of the website is Charles Gikera based in Nairobi, Kenya at
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. The Assistant Administrator is Peter Kyalo based in Nairobi, Kenya at:
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You are welcome to vote in our Poll, join our Facebook Page, join WhatsApp through a smartphone and participate in a variety of forums on our website.

Good luck. We look forward to hearing from you and sharing our mutual experiences. Please send your ideas, information, examples and messages to our website at
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. It is appropriate to conclude this "Welcome Message" with two African proverbs. The commitment to spread the importance and usefulness of proverbs and other African oral literature is expressed in the Ganda (Uganda) proverb: One who sees something good must narrate it. This African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website leads to further research, new collections, and fresh applications as expressed in the Sukuma (Tanzania) proverb: That which is good is never finished.

Rev. Joseph G. Healey, M.M.
Nairobi, Kenya
Moderator
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